Word: besting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mankato, like many others, failed to meet the EPA's minimum emissions standards. The best diesel got 89 m.p.g., the best gasoline entry only 56. Poor old Wisconsin, Stout, apparently could not keep all that wonderful, inexpensive hydrogen from leaking out of its canister and never got going long enough to complete a road test. The disconsolate car owner makes a date with his local garage to tune up the old Impala...
...though he tends to express them more tactfully and precisely. Says his daughter Christina: "When he says something, he knows exactly what he is saying." He is described as the classic understated statesman with a scholar's rather than a preacher's approach to diplomacy. At his best in behind-the-scenes maneuvering, he led a protracted effort to get the Front Line African states, as well as South Africa, to agree to an independent Namibia. Talking to the press last week, McHenry lamented the high visibility of his new post. "It's difficult to accomplish foreign...
...Ivan's Best" sits proudly on the tailgate of a pickup truck as people line up to have their picture taken with it. When the specimen is finally sliced open, Bright thinks it could feed 200 people. One other just dessert for the citizens of Hope, which calls itself "the Watermelon Capital of the World": Bright's belly buster surpassed the 197-pounder raised by North Carolina's Ed Weeks in 1975, which is listed in the 1979 Guinness Book of World Records...
Price is not best known for the incendiary qualities of his music. His keyboard skills have been celebrated since his days as a cornerstone member of the Animals, one of the most vigorous of the Beatles-era British rock groups. His songs for Lindsay Anderson's mock epic of modern England, O Lucky Man (1973), stand as one of the decade's most original film scores. But the spike in his lyrics can be easy to miss: it is hidden neatly between a rich melody and a smooth delivery that owes as much to cabaret...
E.D.T.) People who go to the improvisational comedy clubs in New York City and Los Angeles know that Jimmy Brogan is probably the best comic to hit that circuit since Robin Williams. ABC wisely signed him up, only to cast him in this tired Mork & Mindy retread about an angel who moves to earth. Unlike the manic Williams, who makes a guest appearance in Blue's first episode, Brogan is a quiet, reflective comedian. In his stand-up act he functions as a bemused straight man, playing off the audience, and does not deliver a set routine. ABC would...